Coulomb Technologies isn’t a only association that’s announced some brand-new electric vehicle chargers during this week’s Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose — ECOtality has also taken value of the uncover to entrance its brand-new Blink EV chargers. Those were developed in partnership with Frog Design, that is responsible for the eye-catching look which a companies hope will turn the “brand-new icon for a smart EV ecosystem.” Of particular note with a home chronicle is a modular set-up which lets you place a garden hose-like connective tissue reel separate from a categorical section, that a company says creates it particularly well-suited for close garages. It also looks similar to you’ll soon have a decent possibility of spotting a blurb version out in the wild — a initial charges will be commissioned this Fall as partial of a public-private, $230 million EV Project, which will in the future see ECOtality install nearly 15,000 chargers in 16 U.S. cities. Head on past a mangle for a complete press recover, as well as the video general outlook from Frog Design’s Andy Hooper.

Show full PR textECOtality Introduces Blink The First Smart, Interactive, Iconic EV Chargers and Network

Intelligent, Connected National EV Infrastructure Offers Products for Residential, Utility as well as Retail Customers

Plug-In 2010, SAN FRANCISCO – Tuesday, July 27, 2010 – ECOtality, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECTY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, currently unveiled the flagship electric vehicle charging stations: Blink. The initial indeed smart chargers to hit a market, a Blink Level 2 charging stations will be accessible in dual models-one, an in-home residential wall-mount section and the second, a blurb stand-alone horse. They are designed to be a centerpiece of a rich EV charging infrastructure system that will pave a way to long-term success in a adoption of electric vehicles in the United States and around a world.

“Blink is some-more than the place to block in a car-it is the fulcrum between a driver, car, home as well as application. This high turn of interactivity built into our complement sets Blink chargers apart from anything else upon a market and is pass to pushing consumer EV acceptance,” pronounced Jonathan Read, CEO of ECOtality. “Never before has consumer demand been so tall as well as a marketplace intensity so vast for EVs. By introducing a horse which is simply smarter and really continuous, ECOtality as well as the partners are environment the new attention customary.”

ECOtality worked with tellurian creation organisation frog design to set a brand-new fashion for electric vehicle chargers.

“We are anxious to partner with ECOtality to design as well as bring to marketplace a Blink family of EV chargers,” said Paul Bradley, senior manager beautiful executive for frog design. “Blink adds a tellurian touch to formidable technology. The pattern has the informed striking as well as organic morality which will help to confederate electric vehicles into consumers’ lives, and represents the new idol for the intelligent EV ecosystem.”

The chargers offer poignant improvements over previous charging stations and have been well positioned in the marketplace which is approaching to grow to $1.5 billion by 2015, according to a recent Pike Research report on a electric car equipment supply industry. Blink’s robust, interactive, networked height communicates directly with a vital stakeholders in EV acceptance: consumers, utilities and points of designation, such as retailers. Additionally, the chargers work in and with smart grid systems, as well as their integrated information exchange capabilities will be the pass part of utilities’ direct response resolution.

The initial Blink charging stations will be installed in Fall 2010 as partial of The EV Project. As plan executive of The EV Project, ECOtality will muster nearly 15,000 charging stations in 16 cities opposite six U.S. states, as well as a District of Columbia. The $230 million public-private initiative is funded in partial with the $114.8 million grant from a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), saved by a American Recovery as well as Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

“We’re at a pivotal point propelled by vast supervision investment in The EV Project as well as forlorn consumer demand. We’re sketch upon the years of experience to provide the product which exceeds consumer expectations and facilitates widespread adoption of electric pushing,” pronounced ECOtality North America President Don Karner. “We’ve taken a lessons learned from the over dual decades of electric car infrastructure knowledge as well as applied them to emanate the charging infrastructure network that emphasizes station place, horse information exchange as well as user experience. Blink solves the issues targeting pass travel corridors, overcoming consumer concerns.”

Charging Your EV during Home

Blink was written to obey drivers’ day to day as well as integrate seamlessly into their lifestyle. Drivers will pull up to their home, garage or carport, plug in their car-and travel divided. The Blink Level 2 horse delivers a full assign in two to six hours, can be programmed to charge a automobile when electrical energy rates have been a lowest, as well as will couple to participating utilities as well as be tranquil remotely by intelligent phone and web applications.

Charging Your EV on the Go

Just as Blink home chargers were designed to integrate easily with drivers’ existing lifestyles, an endless amount of consumer function research as well as market investigate guided both the pattern as well as location decisions for a commercial chargers. EV drivers will simply transport to their normal destinations-movie theaters, selling malls, coffee shops and retailers-pull up as well as assign.

The Blink complement is fully interactive with color touch screens delivering report, thirdparty media and connectivity to network headquarters. Through its ability to work a inhabitant network, as good as craving networks, Blink will provide an array of applications for monetization of the charging space for host as well as network operator comparison.

Both Level 2 units have been continuous to 240V AC circuits as well as Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the partner in The EV Project, is now in the routine of contrast a units to certify them to UL’s uncompromising reserve mandate.

Additional information about the units is enclosed in a product spec sheets, accessible for download on the brand-new Blink website: www.blinknetwork.com.

About ECOtality, Inc.

ECOtality, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECTY), headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a leader in clean electric transportation as well as storage technologies. Through innovation, acquisitions, and vital partnerships, ECOtality accelerates a marketplace applicability of advanced electric technologies to replace carbon-based fuels. For some-more information about ECOtality, Inc., please revisit www.ecotality.com.

About frog pattern

frog pattern is the tellurian innovation firm and functions with a world’s leading companies, helping them to emanate as well as bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences. frog’s multidisciplinary process reveals profitable consumer as well as market insights as well as inspires durability, humanizing solutions. With the group of more than 500 designers, technologists, strategists, and analysts, the association delivers fully convergent practice which span mixed technologies, platforms, and media. frog works opposite a extended spectrum of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, appetite, automotive, media, party, education, financial, sell, as well as fashion. Clients include Disney, GE, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MTV, Qualcomm, Siemens, and many alternative Fortune 500 brands. Founded in 1969, frog is headquartered in San Francisco, with studios in Amsterdam, Austin, Milan, Munich, New York, Seattle, as well as Shanghai. frog design is an eccentric multiplication of Aricent, a tellurian creation, record, and outsourcing company, focused exclusively upon communications. Aricent is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, and CPP Investment Board. frog is the Global Growth Company member of the World Economic Forum.

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